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* Conflict, a Condition for Choice (Blues Mondo). Tatyana Apraksina “You can’t go in two doors at once”
* Boethius Voiced by “Sequentia” (Blues Report + Interview). James Manteith “Humans don’t seem to have evolved much since the early 6th century”
* On Tendencies and Trends. Tatyana Apraksina “Blues itself is a tendency”
* Exoplanets. A Non-Existent Tarkovsky Film’s Soundtrack. Irina Mikhailova “Attentiveness to the present moment can stretch awareness to the depth of space and breadth of time”
* Life in Two Thousand Dreams. Alda Merini
* Temptation by Newness. Tatyana Apraksina “The illusion of newness is akin to the illusion of knowability”
* Kandinsky and Music. Valeriy Sterligov “Intellectually I understand this sensation stems from a complex, masterfully constructed polyphony, but a strong emotional reaction paralyzes whatever tendencies to analyze it”
* Landmarks in the Applied: The Secret of Mutually Complementary Colors. Olga Zemlyanikina “Ugly ducklings turn into beautiful birds”
* Forecast from the Archive. Something Much More. Tatyana Apraksina “An artist is namely an artist in that he always speaks of himself and of eternity”
* The Great Gilels, Not Valued in His Own Land. Elena Fedorovich “His modesty created ideal conditions for enviers and slanderers”
* Emily Carr: Passing Ever So Far.
— “One atom of the great reality.” Robert Bruce Tiffany M.
— From the Diaries of Emily Carr.
* “…a picture equals a movement in space” “…to be always on the fence between yourself and yourself”
* The Living Organism of Comics. Nikita Yarygin “The plasticity of time — that is comics’ fundamental means of impact”
* Literature and Comics — Conflict or Camaraderie? Nikita Yarygin “Visual images shock more than verbal ones”
* Between February and October. Vladimir Liubeznov “Gone was the time to reconcile two irreconcilable arrays”
* The Good Old Days, the Way We Want Them. Patricia Walton “We feel that we have lost some things, and we want them back”
* On the Merits of Champagne. Patricia Walton “I created so many ‘me’s”
* Polemics Session: The king is naked, and so’s the queen
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On the History of Unofficial Culture and the Contemporary Russian Diaspora: 1950s-1990s. Autobiographies. Authors' readings. / [Compiled, edited, annotated by Y. M. Valieva]. St. Petersburg: OOO "Contrast," 2015. 600 p. + 3 CDs. ISBN 978-5-4380-0099-0 The book includes new materials on the history of unofficial culture and the contemporary Russian diaspora: autobiographies, manuscript ...Ещё